xxiv, 360 pages ; 22 cm

This updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of Bosnia, a land of vast cultural upheaval where the empires of Rome, Charlemagne, the Ottomans, and the Austro-Hungarians overlapped. This expanded edition of Bosnia includes a new epilogue by the author examining the failed

Vance-Owen peace plan, the tenuous resolution of the Dayton Accords, and the efforts of the United Nations to keep the uneasy peace

Originally published 1994 by Macmillan London Limited

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-342) and index

1. Races, myths and origins: Bosnia to 1180 -- 2. The medieval Bosnian state, 1180-1463 -- 3. The Bosnian Church -- 4. War and the Ottoman system, 1463-1606 -- 5. The Islamicization of Bosnia -- 6. Serbs and Vlachs -- 7. War and politics in Ottoman Bosnia, 1606-1815 -- 8. Economic life, culture and society in Ottoman Bosnia, 1606-1815 -- 9. The Jews and the Gypsies of Bosnia -- 10. Resistance and reform, 1815-1878 -- 11. Bosnia under Austro-Hungarian rule, 1878-1914 -- 12. War and the kingdom: Bosnia 1914-1941 -- 13. Bosnia and the second world war, 1941-1945 -- 14. Bosnia in Titoist Yugoslavia: 1945-1989 -- 15. Bosnia and the death of Yugoslavia: 1989-1992 -- 16. The destruction of Bosnia: 1992-1993 -- Epilogue: A short survey of events, 1993-1995

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